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Four killed in Gaza since Friday

author Saturday August 25, 2007 15:17author by Wissam Afifah - IMEMC News Report this post to the editors

Palestinian medical sources said that two Palestinian men were killed by the Israeli army fire near Al Mintar commercial crossing in the northern part of the Gaza strip.

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The Israeli army said that the two men were trying to cross the borders into Israeli, local sources that that the two men were civilians, their identity is yet to be published.

On Friday at night at least two residents were killed in an Israeli military shelling which targeted Beit Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, told the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, that Israeli soldiers stationed on the northern borders of the Gaza Strip fired shells at a group of residents who gathered near Al Soudaniyya area, north east of Beit Lahia.

At least two residents were confirmed dead due to the attack and a third resident was reportedly killed in the shelling. Dr. Hassanen added that ambulances headed to the area but could not retrieve the bodies due to the ongoing Israeli shelling. Translated by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News Room

category gaza strip | israeli attacks | news report author email ghassanb at imemc dot org

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